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Riot Platforms sold 3,778 bitcoin in the first quarter of 2026, generating $289.5 million and marking a shift in strategy as the miner redirects capital toward infrastructure and high-performance computing. The volume sold exceeded the company’s quarterly production of 1,473 BTC by roughly 2.6 times, signaling a drawdown of treasury holdings rather than routine profit-taking. Riot ended the quarter with 15,680 BTC, down 18% from 18,005 BTC at the close of 2025. The selling appears to have extended beyond the reporting period. Blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence flagged a 500 BTC outflow from a wallet linked to Riot following the…

Ethereum layer-2 networks need “responsive pricing” to scale to billions of users and reduce the fee swings that still accompany congestion, Offchain Labs co-founder Edward Felten said during a keynote at EthCC 2026.Ethereum’s EIP-1559 upgrade launched in August 2021, as part of the London hard fork. It reformed the Ethereum fee market by modifying the gas fee limit and introduced a feature that burns part of the transaction fees, removing them permanently from circulation.Felten said gas-price swings are still the main mechanism for protecting networks from being overrun during periods of heavy demand, even though that produces the kind of…

Decentralized email platform Dmail Network is shutting down after five years of operations, citing high infrastructure costs, weak monetization, failed funding efforts and limited token utility.The platform said it will gradually cease all services starting May 15, and urged users to export their data before then. It said all nodes will shut down after that date, making emails and accounts inaccessible.Dmail Network positioned itself as a Web3 communication platform focused on decentralized, wallet-based email, encrypted messaging and onchain notifications. In January 2025, DappRadar ranked Dmail second among AI DApps, with 4.9 million unique active wallets for the month.Dmail’s closure suggests…

The latest data released on the US labor market indicated that the strong performance of the economy continues. According to data published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, non-farm employment increased by 178,000 people in February, significantly exceeding the market expectation of 65,000. During the same period, the unemployment rate also remained below expectations. According to the released data, the unemployment rate was measured at 4.3 percent, while market expectations were at 4.4 percent. These figures revealed that the labor market maintained its resilient structure. Non-farm payrolls data, released by the U.S. Department of Labor, is considered a key…

The U.S. employment market rebounded in a big way from February’s sizable losses.According to a Friday morning release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the country added 178,000 jobs in March, after losing 133,000 positions the previous month. Economist forecasts had been for 60,000 jobs to have been added.The unemployment rate fell to 4.3% versus 4.4% in February and expectations for 4.4%.At least part of the beat was due to a sizable downward revision in the February data from an originally reported decline of 92,000.Trading quietly near the $67,000 level in the hours ahead of the data, bitcoin BTC$66,776.66 remained…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum has spent the better part of recent months losing ground to Bitcoin, and this underperformance may now be approaching a turning point, at least according to a new technical outlook shared by crypto analyst CrediBULL Crypto. The technical analysis shows that the ETH/BTC pair is no longer breaking down and is now quietly settling down at a level that has always led to sell-off exhaustion in the pair. ETH/BTC Holds Range Lows As Selling Pressure Fades The ETH/BTC 12-hour chart tells a story that has been…

XRP’s close of the month of March in the red has now marked the end of the first quarter of 2026 as very bearish for the cryptocurrency. While this is concerning for investors of the altcoin, this is not the first time in history that the XRP price has closed the first quarter of the year in a complete bleed. In fact, this has happened multiple times throughout history, and so far, the dominating trend seems to be that the cryptocurrency will end up going green. XRP’s First Quarter Of Chaos While Ripple has seen a lot of positive developments…

Offering anonymous eSIM data plans in over 200 countries, disposable and rental phone numbers for SMS verification, WireGuard VPN access and anonymous AI chat tools, LNVPN has outgrown its original brand. The company has grown into a full-spectrum privacy infrastructure service. The company started in 2022 as LNVPN. It began as a proof-of-concept Lightning Network VPN built for the Oslo Freedom Forum after Alex Gladstein asked the team to create a Lightning-enabled VPN for activists in oppressive regimes. The original focus was short-term VPN access paid with Lightning, allowing users to buy service by the hour or day instead of…

South Korean brokerage Korea Investment & Securities (KIS) is reviewing a potential stake in crypto exchange Coinone, according to Korean media reports and company comments, though no deal has been finalized.Citing people familiar with the matter, the Korea Herald reported that KIS started engaging with regulators and politicians as part of a broader process tied to a potential investment in Coinone. Coinone also said no specific transaction had been decided.The news comes as South Korea considers a proposal to cap major shareholders’ stakes in domestic crypto exchanges at 20%, a move that could force ownership changes across parts of the…

60日のパブコメ募集 米国財務省が、米国ステーブルコイン法「ジーニアス法（GENIUS ACT）」の実施に関する規則制定予告（NPRM）を4月1日に公表した。同省がジーニアス法の実施に向けて規則案を提示するのは今回が初めてとなる。 ジーニアス法では、発行残高が100億ドル（約1兆5,961億円）以下の決済用ステーブルコイン発行体について、一定の条件のもとで州レベルの規制制度を選択することが認められている。ただし、その州制度は連邦の規制枠組みと「実質的に類似」しており、かつステーブルコイン認証審査委員会（Stablecoin Certification Review Committee）の承認を受ける必要がある。 今回のNPRMは、この「実質的に類似」かどうかを判断するための広範な原則を、「12 CFR Part 1521」として新たに制定することを目的とするものだ。財務省は2025年9月19日に事前規則制定予告（ANPRM）を公表しており、同年11月4日までに寄せられたパブリックコメントを踏まえて今回の規則案を策定した。 規則案のポイントは大きく3つだ。 第1に、「連邦規制の基準」の定義だ。財務省は、基準を法律の条文に限定せず、連邦機関による規則や解釈も含むとした。中心となるのは銀行監督当局（OCC）の規則で、マネーロンダリングや制裁関連は財務省、抱き合わせ禁止規定はFRBが担う。なお、OCCなどの規則については原則として連邦官報掲載文書が対象とされるが、銀行秘密法（BSA）、制裁や抱き合わせ取引の禁止（アンタイイング）関連では一部例外的にそれ以外の文書も含まれ得る。 第2に、要件の二分類である。ジーニアス法第4条(a)の要件を「一律要件（uniform requirements）」と「州裁量要件（State-calibrated requirements）」に区分した。前者には準備資産の構成や開示義務、担保の再利用禁止、マネロン対策、利息支払い禁止などが含まれる。後者は自己資本や流動性などで、州が独自に設計できるが、連邦基準と同等以上の厳格さ・保護水準が求められる。 特に資本・流動性関連では、連邦枠組みにおける水準を踏まえ、同等以上の規制効果を持つことが求められる。 第3に、その他分野での「実質的類似性」の扱いである。準備資産、監督、破綻処理などについても連邦枠組みと整合的である必要がある。一方で、申請手続きや手続的な運用方法などについては一定の柔軟性が認められている。州は連邦基準を上回る追加規制を課すことが可能だが、連邦法や規則と抵触する内容は認められない。 パブリックコメントの提出期限は、連邦官報掲載日から60日以内で、regulations.govを通じて提出できる。 規則案は全体で78の設問を提示しており、「実質的類似性」の評価方法や定量基準の扱い、OCCの規則が最終化された場合の原則修正の可能性など、幅広い論点について意見を求めている。 参考：発表画像：Reuters 関連ニュース トランプ大統領、銀行がGENIUS法を弱体化と批判。Clarity法成立への支持も 米財務省とIRS、暗号資産ステーキングの税務ルールを明確化 米財務省、GENIUS法に基づき意見募集を開始 テザーの米国向けステーブルコイン「USAT」、セロに展開 米ステーブルコイン利回り規制で原則合意、クラリティ法審議前進の可能性＝報道